How To Install libattr-devel.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libattr-devel.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.
What is libattr-devel.x86_64
This package contains header files and documentation needed to develop programs which make use of extended attributes. For Linux programs, the documented system call API is the recommended interface, but an SGI IRIX compatibility interface is also provided. Currently only ext2, ext3 and XFS support extended attributes. The SGI IRIX compatibility API built above the Linux system calls is used by programs such as xfsdump(8), xfsrestore(8) and xfs_fsr(8). You should install libattr-devel if you want to develop programs which make use of extended attributes. If you install libattr-devel, you’ll also want to install attr.
We can use yum to install libattr-devel.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install libattr-devel.x86_64.
Install libattr-devel.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install libattr-devel.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install libattr-devel.x86_64
How To Uninstall libattr-devel.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2
To uninstall only the libattr-devel.x86_64 package we can use the following command:
sudo yum remove libattr-devel.x86_64
libattr-devel.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2
/usr/include/attr
/usr/include/attr/attributes.h
/usr/include/attr/error_context.h
/usr/include/attr/libattr.h
/usr/include/attr/xattr.h
/usr/lib64/libattr.so
/usr/share/man/man2/fgetxattr.2.gz
/usr/share/man/man2/flistxattr.2.gz
/usr/share/man/man2/fremovexattr.2.gz
/usr/share/man/man2/fsetxattr.2.gz
/usr/share/man/man2/getxattr.2.gz
/usr/share/man/man2/lgetxattr.2.gz
/usr/share/man/man2/listxattr.2.gz
/usr/share/man/man2/llistxattr.2.gz
/usr/share/man/man2/lremovexattr.2.gz
/usr/share/man/man2/lsetxattr.2.gz
/usr/share/man/man2/removexattr.2.gz
/usr/share/man/man2/setxattr.2.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/attr_get.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/attr_getf.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/attr_list.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/attr_listf.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/attr_multi.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/attr_multif.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/attr_remove.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/attr_removef.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/attr_set.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/attr_setf.3.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libattr-devel.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.